Vasudev R.

Long time software developer, consultant and trainer. Published author of technical articles. Fellow at Python Software Foundation. Also once nearly swam from India to Burma. Ask me about that :)

Web site: https://vasudevram.github.io

Profile: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/about-vasudev-ram.html

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Skilled software developer, consultant and trainer, with 15+ years experience in many tech areas. Published author of technical articles on Python, C, Linux, on IBM, Packt Publishing, and other sites/magazines. Creator of a popular Python open source library for PDF creation. Contributor to Python ecosystem via open source projects, articles and many blog posts. Current skills: Python, Flask, SQL databases, C, Linux / Unix shell scripting, REST, open source tools and libraries, software and database design, software testing, PDF generation, PDF text extraction. Have worked for large US and Indian enterprises as well as for startups, in roles of employee (developer, team leader, project manager) and consultant.

I like teaching and mentoring. At various times from the start of my career to the present, have taught software subjects formally / informally, as a high school computer teacher, private computer institute instructor, given training to corporate clients of companies I worked for, and to my own corporate / individual clients as an independent consultant.

My blog http://jugad2.blogspot.com (from 2008) has many posts on software topics, including frequent Python posts - see http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python , which are regularly syndicated on Planet Python - http://planet.python.org .
Business web site: https://vasudevram.github.io (see Home, Products, Services, About, and Contact pages there).
Email: vasudevram@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasudevram
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram
Skype: vasudevram

Fellow of the Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf/members/ . Fellows are elected based on their contributions to the Python community / ecosystem.

Creator of xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation, used by Packt Publishing (UK), Software Freedom Law Center (US), and ESRI (NL), among others. xtopdf can convert many input formats to PDF, e.g. for business reports, and can also create PDF e-books from text or XML. I add features and support for more input formats to it once in a while.
Good online overview of xtopdf: http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf
xtopdf project on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

Independent developer, consultant, trainer with many years experience in a variety of technologies. Worked for leading American and Indian product and project software companies, both big and small, earlier - Veritas Software (now Symantec) and Infosys Technologies among them.

Python, C, SQL, Ruby (not recent), databases, Linux and open source technologies are some key strengths, built over many years of real-life projects. Working on D (DLang) too.

PDF generation in Python is an area of specialization; I wrote a product for it, xtopdf, which is used by some organizations in the US, UK and NL ,among others. Can help with automated PDF generation and PDF text extraction, having done some work on both areas.

Published author of technical articles on IBM developerWorks, Packt Publishing site, and Linux For You magazine. Article for IBM developerWorks, "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C), got an average 4-star rating (out of max. 5) over many reviews. Some companies (e.g. Tellytopia, one of my clients, acquired by Concurrent Systems) have used it as a guide to create production Linux command-line utilities. See:
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-article.html - about the artlcie, and a link to it, and:
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/10/print-selected-text-pages-to-pdf-with.html - example of using the utility with my xtopdf toolkit to perform a real-life task.
I can help with command-line utility development in C / D / Python / Ruby (on UNIX / Linux / Windows).

My open source software projects on Bitbucket (xtopdf, PDFXMLRPC, PySiteCreator, pipe_controller, etc.): https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram